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foobarquxyesterday at 11:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes that's the obvious thing to do and why straightforward variants of known tests would also be treated as contaminated by anyone being even somewhat rigorous.

I don't know why the standard is is to be sure that it is happening versus it being a plausible risk of making the results useless.


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simonwtoday at 1:39 AM

The pelican test has never pretended to be "rigorous". It's always openly been very much not that.